Has anyone ever had a problem with breaking a power steering pumps while spinning a donut or is it just me and my friends??

I see ppl spinning donuts all the time in videos online, I have blown 3 power steering pumps spinning donuts, the last 2 broke on the first one. And on Saturday night my friend spun his first donut ever and blow the pump. What is going on here??

Anyone else haveing this problem, any bigger/better pumps that we can buy??

 

Steering wheel at lock + High RPM = dead PS pump.

If you MUST do doughnuts, don't turn your wheel all the way to lock.

 

if you must be dumb and do donuts, be prepared to replace power steering pumps.

 

I forgot to minchen... I have never had the steering wheel at lock, while spinning a donut.

 

In that case, see Blue89Bird's post above.

 

Your lucky thats the only thing you have Facked.

 

I'm not some guys that spins donuts all the time and beats up my car, I was just seeing if anyone notcied the same trend I did, or explain why.

 

Yo i do them like every day..because i have to make this one u-turn and there just isnt enuf room. I have never had any problems with anything from doing them...I have done them with all my cars (that could).

 

Hey man, I just broke my first a couple days ago doing donuts... hope they dont break all the time when you do this sort of stuff.



kurt

 

what do you think will happen?

 

I think I'll just play it a little safer from now on so i dont have to find out again what will happen if i do this kind of stuff.


kurt

 

Don't worry, you will!! I have broken 3 pumps so far. Know one has been able to tell me why either.....

 

Did u break off the shaft? Thats what i broke...



Kurt

 

When my firend broke his that is what he did. We where able to just pull the enire shaft out of the pump.

My thery:
I think that sine the tire in the front are large they don't side with the rest of the car, and sine the gab the pump is trying to keep the wheels realitve with the rest of the car (witch is spinnings in a circle) then you add in the high rpms of the pump going and I think it just breaks because the pump isn't strong enought to hold the wheel in the same position.